She's got the beat: "Jazz is not just a style of music, it is an approach to life: Thinking out of the box, chan...

WHAT do Sheila E, Meg White, Debbie Peterson, Janet Weiss, Gina Schock, Mo Tucker and the late Karen Carpenter have in common? Well, they all belong to that delicious group of musicians called female drummers. Here in Singapore, female drummers here have been turning the beat around for years, although if you ask anybody on the street, they probably couldn't name even one. Like in other countries, the music scene here has been decidedly male-dominated. Getting into the groove Still, that hasn't been an obstacle for female drummers here, said Audrey Tang, who drums for all-female jazz sextet Tessera. Interestingly, Tang started out wanting to play bass guitar, but later changed her mind. "I gravitated towards drums because it's so primal. When I tried to ask the boys in church how to play, they told me that girls don't play drums, so I went out and got lessons at Yamaha whe...